Shiga Kogen Yokoteyama-Shibutoge Mountain
The landform the resort sits on: the shape of the hill beyond the pistes, how steep it gets, and where it stands among the mountains on JapowDB.
This mountain faces several ways at once, mostly north-west.
Where this vertical sits among the mountains on JapowDB
602 m, more than 26 of the 49 mountains on JapowDB.
The mountain
横手山 (Yokote-yama) 2,307 m
- Landform
- Yokote-yama is a volcano built of andesite, on the border between Nagano and Gunma prefectures. Its summit is broad and rounded, shaped like a cooking pot.
- Rock
- Every run sampled sits on andesite and basaltic andesite lava and pyroclastic rock, from the summit at 2,303 m down to the base at 1,705 m. The summit, the east side and the base area date from the early Pleistocene (Gelasian). The western mid-mountain, between about 1,830 m and 2,080 m, is a slightly younger andesite (Calabrian). One sample on the outer Queen run, at 1,933 m, falls on a small patch of older diorite from the late Miocene to Pliocene.
From published sources, checked by hand · 2026-10-06
That ground is outside the ski area. It is not patrolled.
Measured
01
Which way it faces
Faces north-west.
Most of the mapped runs fall away toward the north-west.
02
How steep it gets
The steepest quarter of the runs faces west, a different way from the mountain overall.
Its steepest pitch measures 26.0°.
Its steepest tenth is steeper than 2 of the 49 mountains here that carry pitch data.
12.6° the steepest tenth of runs
03
How varied it is
Its runs range from 4.0° to 14.7°.
Half of them are gentler than 10.0°. Each mark is one run.
That spread is wider than 6 of the 48 mountains here that carry pitch data.
04
What grows on it
This mountain has both, in separate patches. The deciduous stands drop their leaves and open up for the winter; the conifer stands stay closed.
Read off the national vegetation survey (2024 edition), from fieldwork in 2013.
The forest on this mountain, in detail